Rolf-Dieter Arens (born 16 February 1945) is a German University professor and pianist. From 2001 to 2010 he was
Rector
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of the
Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt, Weimar.
Life
Arens was born in . He received his first piano lessons at the age of five and completed his studies at the
University of Music and Theatre Leipzig from 1963 to 1968 with H. Volger (piano) and L. Schuster (
chamber music
Chamber music is a form of classical music that is composed for a small group of instruments—traditionally a group that could fit in a palace chamber or a large room. Most broadly, it includes any art music that is performed by a small numb ...
). From 1970 to 1986 he taught piano in
Leipzig and
Weimar, from 1986 until his retirement in 2011 he was full professor for piano at the Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt in Weimar.
In 1987 he served on the jury of the
Paloma O'Shea Santander International Piano Competition.
From 1986 to 1991 he was a soloist with the
Berlin Symphony Orchestra. In 1995 he founded the ''Kammermusikvereinigung Weimarer Solisten''.
Rolf-Dieter Arenson
on AllMusic
Arens has been President of the since 2011.
Awards
* 1982: Art Prize of the German Democratic Republic
* 2014: Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia
The Order of Merit of the Free State of Thuringia (german: Verdienstorden des Freistaats Thüringen) is the highest order which is bestowed by the Free State of Thuringia. The number of living holders of the order is limited to 300 persons.
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1945 births
Living people
People from Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge
20th-century German male classical pianists